Description
Rice shows how the growth of tourism at Machu Picchu swayed Peruvian leaders to celebrate Andean culture as compatible with their vision of a modernizing nation. Encompassing debates about nationalism, Indigenous peoples' experiences, and cultural policy-as well as development and globalization-the book explores the contradictions and ironies of Machu Picchu's transformation. On a broader level, it calls attention to the importance of tourism in the creation of national identity in Peru and Latin America as a whole.
About the Author
Mark Rice is assistant professor of history at Baruch College, City University of New York.
Book Information
ISBN 9781469643533
Author Mark Rice
Format Paperback
Page Count 248
Imprint The University of North Carolina Press
Publisher The University of North Carolina Press